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Indexed web improves search. Web search technology enters new phase as enterprise search vendors rush to index the internet and improve search results, writes Mark Chillingworth.

Information World Review

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Leading enterprise search vendors have started to release "indexes" of the internet, in a move they claim signals a new phase for web search technology.

UK-based Autonomy and US specialist Convera have announced web indexes, which will be available to providers of web services to improve their content delivery.

"The launch of indexes is, in many ways, stage two of web search development," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, which recently acquired major rival Verity. Autonomy has released its Conceptual Index of the World Wide Web. The index is said to contain one billion items, including web pages, video, audio and image files. Convera has created an index of 500 million images, 20 million audio files and five million videos as part of its Excalibur web search technology.

"Google and Yahoo search engines have a keyword index, but with this we are launching an index of concepts, which will ...

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